Is there a particular reason you need an nvidia gpu? Like plans to do local LLMs or other projects that really require a nvidia gpu?

Because I am just so pleased with AMD for gpus in Linux. So simple.

Not knocking your choice, just trying to understand it. Everyone has valid reasons for why they choose their setups.

Edit: nevermind I am so confused by the new naming schemes I thought this was an nvidia, others have informed me its an AMD. Nevermind me I am a dingus.

It’s hit and miss in eastern WA, none in this old house.

I live in the desert of eastern Washington state, USA.

It’s been a fucking heat wave for a month already. I’m dyin’ over and losing so much sleep. It’s past 1am and the windows have been open with fans in them since 10pm when the temperature outside finally dropped below the temperature inside (79F/26.1C outside to 80F/26.6C inside), and as of now its finally down to… 77F/25C… still too fucking hot. It’s been well over 90F/32F every day for way way way too long. It’s hit 100F/37F at least 6 days that I’ve counted so far.

I’m a self-hoster with a lot of devices and I’ve literally shut down any non-essentials to keep the heat down inside.

Thank you Ted, that’s the joke.

systemdeez nuts!

https://www.usa.philips.com/c-m-pe/oneblade-trim-edge-and-shave/oneblade-intimate

If you or your son (or anyone else in this thread for that matter) ever want a slightly simpler option, with less likelihood of cutting, I recommend this. It has been a game changer for me personally.

Personal collection via Plex server and Plexamp either on desktop (speakers/headphones) or my phone (headphones/car stereo)

I actually originally misread this question as “How often do you listen to music” and so the answer to that is, based on my average tracks per year on Last.fm which is roughly around 10,000 per year, I average around 27 tracks a day, which I would guesstimate to be roughly about two hours a day.

That’s ice cold brother man.

Also I love how the wikipedia article was written in 3rd person, as if the writers themselves arent human lol

I mean that’s the best part of writing about humans, is having to try to pull yourself out of being human and take a larger, outside view of the whole mess of humanity. It’s hard to get to that level of detachment for real though.

I have always kind of wanted to see a documentary on modern humans as though it was a nature documentary. Like Werner Herzog narrating “As you can see the male participates in a strange ritual to attract a mate that involves using rudimentary systems of trade to procure what is often referred to as a ‘truck,’ as he believes this flamboyant display helps prove his manhood and ability to provide for offspring.”

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No, the graphics from Intel back in 07-10 were crap.

What are you using graphics on a server for instead of just CLI?

You just can’t buy too old or the inverse happens and the performance per watt drops. I think you’re right that 2012 is about the cutoff. Maybe 2007 for certain items, like my 2007 iMac. But if you’re getting back to the Pentium 4 era you’ve gone too far and need to turn back around.

See, I only use flatpaks sparingly for this reason, but in some cases they’re indispensable when you don’t want an application to access certain parts of your system. The sandboxing is what makes them useful, in my opinion. For everything else, there’s the deb packages.

Hell yuh.

Meanwhile, in Britain:

Humans should be able to move as freely between countries as money is allowed to.

I mean, I definitely didn’t jump to “let me shower in your apartment” like some suggested, that’s absurd. The whole reason for starting with a coffee date is because it’s low-stakes and in public so either party can bail easily if it’s not a match. Women especially shouldn’t be giving out their home address to strangers and letting them in as a first-time-meeting. I am also a cancer patient with limited income so driving 20 minutes to the nearest truckstop or trying to buy a daypass at a local gym were both unrealistic as well.

I just asked to reschedule and was ghosted, but yeah, I get that people usually think that’s someone trying to flake out. It just sucks when you have a legitimate reason and that gets assumed.

Anyway, waters back on now.

Counterpoint: When Louis CK (prior to being outed as a sex pest) released one of his comedy specials on his website DRM-free for $5 he became a millionaire almost overnight.

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/22/drm-free-experiment-makes-loui.html

Price point matters, too.

It also jives with early Steam Sales when Valve would cut titles like Left 4 Dead Counter Strike down to 90% off, and they would sell so many digital copies that they were actually making more money off the lower price.

https://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell/

Now we did something where we decided to look at price elasticity. Without making announcements, we varied the price of one of our products. We have Steam so we can watch user behavior in real time. That gives us a useful tool for making experiments which you can’t really do through a lot of other distribution mechanisms. What we saw was that pricing was perfectly elastic. In other words, our gross revenue would remain constant. We thought, hooray, we understand this really well. There’s no way to use price to increase or decrease the size of your business.

But then we did this different experiment where we did a sale. The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with it. We do a 75 percent price reduction, our Counter-Strike experience tells us that our gross revenue would remain constant. Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40. Which is completely not predicted by our previous experience with silent price variation. …

Then we decided that all we were really doing was time-shifting revenue. We were moving sales forward from the future. Then when we analyzed that we saw two things that were very surprising. Promotions on the digital channel increased sales at retail at the same time, and increased sales after the sale was finished, which falsified the temporal shifting and channel cannibalization arguments. Essentially, your audience, the people who bought the game, were more effective than traditional promotional tools. So we tried a third-party product to see if we had some artificial home-field advantage. We saw the same pricing phenomenon. Twenty-five percent, 50 percent and 75 percent very reliably generate different increases in gross revenue.

I’m having trouble finding a link to substantiate it, but I remember in the early 2000’s a group of artists having to sue their record labels because of the lawsuits on file-sharing users. The record labels said they were doing it for the artists, but the artists had to sue the record labels to even ever see a penny from the fruits of those lawsuits. The record labels were just pocketing the money for themselves while saying it was “for the artists.”

Anyway, long story short is that kind of behavior from the recording industry made me want to give money directly to the artists and cut out these selfish middlemen who did nothing but claimed all the profits.

http://www.callbeforeyoudig.org/washington/

At least in Washingon there are free services to locate pipes and lines for this exact purpose.

Also, it’s a legal requirement for anything deeper than 12 inches, and the 12 inch exemption is mostly for homeowners and road work.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.122

Finally, I’m pretty sure you’d have be using a backhoe or other industrial equipment to bust open a water main that affects a whole neighborhood.